caille des blés
\kaj dɛ ble\
The verdict
“caille des blés” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce d’oiseau gallinacé, petit gibier, une caille de l’Ancien Monde, brun-strié avec un bandeau blanc sur l'oeil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caille des blés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaj dɛ ble\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caille des blés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caille des blés is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaj dɛ ble\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce d’oiseau gallinacé, petit gibier, une caille de l’Ancien Monde, brun-strié avec un bandeau blanc sur l'oeil.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caille des blés in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is caille des blés, spelled C-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E-S- -B-L-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau gallinacé, petit gibier, une caille de l’Ancien Monde, brun-strié avec un bandeau blanc sur l'oeil.
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Using “caille des blés”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E-S- -B-L-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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